Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, BrazilBlacks of the Rosary tells the story of the Afro-Brazilian communities that developed within lay religious brotherhoods dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary in Minas Gerais. It shows how these brotherhoods functioned as a social space in which Africans and their descendants could rebuild a communal identity based on a shared history of an African past and an ongoing devotional practice, thereby giving rise to enduring transnational cultures that have survived to the present day. In exploring this intersection of community, identity, and memory, the book probes the Portuguese and African contributions to the brotherhoods in Part One. Part Two traces the changes and continuities within the organizations from the early eighteenth century to the end of the Brazilian Empire, and the book concludes in Part Three with discussion of the twentieth-century brotherhoods and narratives of the participants in brotherhood festivals in the 1990s. In a larger sense, the book serves as a case study through which readers can examine the strategies that Afro-Brazilians used to create viable communities in order to confront the asymmetry of power inherent in the slave societies of the Americas and their economic and social marginalization in the twentieth century. |
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... points out that slaves would have drawn “on differing aspects of their home backgrounds as they searched for a morally restorative sense of humane community among themselves.”7 The seeming contradictions in the rosary brotherhoods can ...
... points out, “thought of themselves primarily in terms of social identities constructed out of family and other local communities.”11 The groups with which many Africans in Minas Gerais chose to align themselves were the brotherhoods of ...
... points out that “a belief exists only because people believe it: it is not an attribute or property but the evidence of a process.”21 In exactly the same way, a memory exists only because a person, or group, remembers it, and like ...
... points out, the formation of brotherhoods pointed to the “intense socialization of death” already taking place before the second half of the thirteenth century.26 Although they were religious and dedicated to a particular saint ...
... points out that all the Council of Trent changed in New Castile was that the Roman church became the universal church, with new power over local churches, yet, as Manuel M. Marzal points out, Trent did not do away with local practices ...
Contents
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3 Early Formation of the Brotherhoods 16901750 | 67 |
4 The Late Colonial Period 17501822 | 103 |
5 The Brotherhoods in the Brazilian Empire | 139 |
6 Congados and Reinados 18881990 | 173 |
7 Voices of the Congadeiros | 207 |
Conclusion | 241 |
Appendix | 251 |
Glossary | 259 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 281 |
Back Cover | 288 |
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Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy Limited preview - 2005 |
Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy Limited preview - 2007 |
Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy No preview available - 2007 |